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Politics May 9, 2023

No Politics, No Religion?

How America's Code of Conduct Conceals Our Unity

Gregory Harms

Hosted by David Kunsman
Americans are told that they are divided and polarized, but is it true? No Politics, No Religion?: How America's Code of Conduct Conceals Our Unity (Political Animal Press, 2022) put …

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Media December 22, 2022

Sad by Design

On Platform Nihilism

Geert Lovink

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
Why is the internet making us so unhappy? Why is it in capital’s interests to cultivate populations that are depressed and desperate rather than driven by the same irrational exuberance …
Politics July 25, 2022

It's Not Free Speech

Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth

Hosted by Catriona Gold
The protests of summer 2020 led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have …
Art February 28, 2022

Beautiful Agitation

Modern Painting and Politics in Syria

Anneka Lenssen

Hosted by Holiday Powers
Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (University of California Press, 2020), by Anneka Lenssen, focuses on modern art practice in Syria from 1900 to 1965 and the ways that …